UCLA Center for the Study of Women Streisand Center

10/21/2026

Register now for our graduate student workshop, "Asking Different Questions: Feminist Approaches to Research, Knowledge, and Academic Culture"

Join UCLA CSW | Barbra Streisand Center and the UC Davis Feminist Research Institute for a lunch & workshop examining how eugenics, colonialism, and patriarchy continue to shape academia — and how we can challenge them.

You’ll walk away with:�
• Frameworks from feminist science studies�
• Tools for recognizing systemic bias in research�
• Strategies for aligning your work with your values�
• Approaches for taking action toward equity�•
Ways to strengthen the accuracy & impact of your research

Led by Sarah McCullough, UC Davis Feminist Research Institute
📅 December 3, 2026
�🕥 10:30 AM–12:00 PM�
📍 CSW | Barbra Streisand Center, 1500 Public Affairs, UCLA�
🍽️ Free, Lunch Provided�

Open to graduate students from all fields.

Register Now: https://asking-different-questions-graduate.eventbrite.com/

10/20/2026

Join CSW|Streisand Center and UCLA Asian American Studies Department for our Speaker Series: Historical Perspectives on Asian American and Pacific Islander Communities

Dates: Thursday afternoons, October 29 – November 19, 2026.

This speaker series features Q&A sessions with authors who have recently published books on Asian American and/or Pacific Islander history. We will discuss different ways of relating to and narrating a collective past, with a particular focus on innovative methods. Topics include feminist archiving practices, Cold War afterlives, and how to write histories relationally. The featured speakers are Dr. Kristin Oberiano, Dr. Crystal Mun-hye Baik, Dr. Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, and Dr. Wendy Cheng.

10/19/2026

Unfortunately, due to unforeseen circumstances the UCLA Department of Gender Studies Q-Lecture scheduled for Monday October 19 with Jules Gill-Peterson and Kadji Amin will have to be rescheduled. We will follow up at a later time when a new date has been determined.

10/19/2026

Reminder! Call for Faculty Writing Retreat Grants 📝

UCLA CSW|Streisand Center invites applications for funding to support self-organized writing retreats for UCLA faculty. Applicants must be willing to schedule and execute the retreat by June 30, 2027.

Deadline: Friday, November 20, 2026
🔗 Scan the QR code or visit http://csw.ucla.edu/.../call-for-faculty-writing-retreat.../ to apply.

10/19/2026

Reminder! Call for Faculty Manuscript Development Grants 📝

CSW|Streisand Center invites applications from UCLA assistant professors and early career non-senate faculty for funding to support manuscript workshops and manuscript development (including, but not limited to, manuscript development consultation, proof reading, indexing). We welcome all research areas, particularly research with explicit connection to the study of feminism, gender, sexuality, and/or women. Grant must be used by June 30, 2027.

Deadline: Friday, November 20, 2026

🔗 Scan the QR code or visit http://csw.ucla.edu/.../call-for-faculty-manuscript.../ to apply. See less

10/16/2026

Free public workshop at UCLA: "From Fact to Story"

Join writer Lauren Markham for a Craft Writing Workshop on how to turn facts into story and ideas into a cohesive narrative. Using case studies, she’ll trace how an idea becomes a story and show how narrative tools (scene, character, action, and movement) can make academic and public scholarship more engaging and impactful.

Wednesday, January 13, 2027
4 – 5:30 PM
Royce 314, UCLA

This workshop is free and open to the public. Register here: https://csw.ucla.edu/event/craft-writing-workshop-with-lauren-markham/

Presented by the UCLA Center for the Study of Women|Barbra Streisand Center, with thanks to our Faculty Development co-sponsors UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, UCLA Anderson School of Management, UCLA School of Law, UCLA Samueli School of Engineering UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs

10/15/2026

Meet with a humanities editor 📚

The Editor-in-Residence Program gives members of the UCLA community the chance to meet one-on-one with an editor and get direct feedback on their book project. This year’s consultations are with Leah Pennywark, Humanities Editor at the University of Minnesota Press. The program is open to ladder faculty, adjuncts and lecturers, postdocs, and advanced graduate students.

Applications are due Sunday, December 13, 2026, for consultations on February 23–24, 2027.

Read the full details and apply: https://csw.ucla.edu/2026/10/14/meet-with-a-humanities-editor-editor-in-residence-program/

Thank you to our generous cosponsors: UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, UCLA Anderson School of Management, UCLA School of Law, UCLA Samueli School of Engineering UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs

10/15/2026

Deadline approaching: Call for Proposals for Thinking Gender 2027. Please share with grad students and postdocs in your network! Applicants from all universities are welcome.

Graduate students and postdocs are invited to send proposals for the 37th Annual Thinking Gender Graduate Student Research Conference, “Power and Care in Gendered Migrations,” taking place April 29–30, 2027.

This year’s conference explores how immigrant communities are experiencing immigration enforcement in gendered ways, from detention and deportation to the practices of care that sustain families and communities living in fear. It also asks how engaged researchers can show up for the communities they work with, and care for themselves and each other while doing so.
Who can apply? Graduate students and post-doctoral scholars from any institution in the humanities, social sciences, and the arts. Feminist and q***r, cross-disciplinary collaborations are especially welcome.

What to expect:
- Three online co-writing sessions for works-in-progress (January 14, February 11, and March 11, 2027)
- A closed, in-person workshop day at UCLA on April 29, with feedback from peers and a faculty moderator
- A public symposium on April 30 featuring a keynote, workshops, and networking

We welcome scholarly papers, hybrid critical/creative work, place-based engagements, and film/mixed media. Twelve participants will be selected, and unpublished work is preferred.

Submission deadline: Sunday, October 25, 2026, at 11:59 pm PDT
Apply online: csw.ucla.edu/events/thinkinggender

UCLA Department of Gender Studies Marquette University Center for Gender and Sexualities Studies SCSU Women's & Gender Studies Department Women and Gender Studies Program at George Mason University Centre for Studies in Gender and Sexuality - Ashoka University Gender and Sexuality Studies Department, UC Riverside UC Davis Gender, Sexuality & Women's Studies UCSD Critical Gender Studies Program

Thinking Gender is an annual public conference highlighting graduate student research on women, sexuality, and gender across all disciplines and historical periods. CSW|Streisand Center has been hosting Thinking Gender since 1991.

10/14/2026

📢 Call for Proposals: Inequality and Democracy Doctoral Awards

The Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy invites UCLA doctoral students whose work advances the Institutes' goals of strengthening democracy and combatting inequality to apply.

AWARD AMOUNT: Awards up to $10,000

APPLICATION DEADLINE: Friday, November 13, 2026

Apply here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeXhixuMvWhLNEn-w5JZI7YYdtVDeMjar8tCnWF4s8PA3USbg/viewform

10/14/2026

Free screening alert: Cookie Queens at UCLA!

Join us this Friday, October 16 at 11:00 AM on the UCLA campus for a very special screening of Cookie Queens, the critically acclaimed documentary that celebrates girlhood in all its complexity: the joy, the pressure, the friendship, and the fierce ambition behind one of America’s most beloved traditions, the annual Girl Scout Cookie sale.

After the film, stay for a Q&A with award-winning director Alysa Nahmias, hosted by Kristy Guevara-Flanagan, Vice Chair of Undergraduate Studies and Head of Documentary at the UCLA Department of Film, Television & Digital Media.

🎟️ Tickets are free, but supplies are limited.

Presented by the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television in partnership with the Center for Media, Entertainment & Sports at UCLA Anderson School of Management, and the UCLA Center for the Study of Women|Barbra Streisand Center. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cookie-queens-screening-qa-session-at-ucla-tickets-2002664385086